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US agency offers $307 million for rural water projects 07/07/2021 08:21pm • OHKAY OWINGEH PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will issue up to $307 million in grants and low-interest loans in an effort to modernize rural water infrastructure, officials announced Wednesday. The programs are aimed at towns with less than 10,000 people in 34 states and the Jovenel Moïse, Haiti's embattled president, killed at 53 07/07/2021 05:05pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, a former banana producer and political neophyte who ruled Haiti for more than four years as the country grew increasingly unstable under his watch, was killed on Wednesday. He was 53. Moïse was assassinated at his private home during MarketAxess, Valero fall; Steel Dynamics, LGI Homes rise 07/07/2021 04:22pm • Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: SMART Global Holdings Inc., up $8.47 to $56.02. The computer memory technology company gave investors an encouraging profit forecast. Steel Dynamics Inc., up $3 to $61.22. The steel producer increased its stock buyback program by Aston Villa loans American Indiana Vassilev to Inter Miami 07/07/2021 02:25pm • MIAMI (AP) — American forward Indiana Vassilev was loaned Wednesday from Aston Villa to Inter Miami for the rest of the Major League Soccer season. The 20-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, made his Aston Villa debut against Fulham in the FA Cup on Jan. 4, 2020, and made his Premier League debut tha Building collapse shows town's rich, middle-class division 07/07/2021 02:13pm • SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The condo tower collapse in Surfside could exacerbate the division that already exists between the tiny Florida town’s new luxury buildings built for the global elite and those constructed decades ago for the middle class. It is already creating headaches for some small bus Teachers, students struggle with online classes in Chile 07/07/2021 11:14am • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Marcela García teaches science classes sitting on three cushions placed on a chair in her dining room in Chile's capital, while many of her students listen to her from their beds because both sides lack sufficient space for the remote teaching brought on by the coronavirus Are state interest-rate caps an automatic win for borrowers? 07/07/2021 08:07am • Small-dollar, short-term lenders, unburdened by a federal maximum interest rate, can charge borrowers rates of 400% or more for their loans. But more states are bringing that number down by setting rate caps to curb high-interest lending. Currently, 18 states and Washington, D.C. , have laws that li The 2021 Child Tax Credit: Why Some Families Are Opting Out 07/07/2021 12:00am • Families are scheduled to receive their first iteration of the 2021 advance child tax credit payment starting on July 15, but not everyone who receives the payment will actually qualify for it. Those who don't qualify and fail to opt out will ultimately have to repay the monthly credit of up to $30 How to Get Tiny House Financing 07/07/2021 12:00am • Tiny houses are pint-size dwellings, mostly between 100 and 400 square feet, built for simpler living and smaller budgets. Financing for a tiny house can get tricky, though. You may have a hard time finding a traditional mortgage, leaving you to seek alternative financing options. This is because m How Volunteer Work Can Pay Your Student Loans 07/07/2021 12:00am • Paying off your student loans by volunteering might sound counterintuitive, but there are ways that such service efforts can help reduce debt accumulated from attending college. There are programs that allow college graduates to volunteer and in exchange receive money toward paying down their stude Millennial Money: What will you teach your kids about money? 07/06/2021 04:42pm • Hey, internet: Remember millennials? Many of us have graduated from our lattes and leisurely brunches to become parents with jobs, car loans and perhaps even a mortgage. On our road to adulthood, we’ve experienced two global crises — a recession and a pandemic. Many of us are also still carrying Ocugen, Welbilt rise; Talos Energy, Hess fall 07/06/2021 04:18pm • Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Weibo Corp., up $3.43 to $57.74. The China-based social media company is reportedly in talks to go private, though it has denied the media reports. Ocugen Inc., up 24 cents to $7.53. The biotechnology company's partner Bharat Biote Paris Saint-Germain signs Morocco right-back Achraf Hakimi 07/06/2021 01:58pm • PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain bolstered its defense by signing Morocco right-back Achraf Hakimi from Inter Milan on Tuesday. PSG, which is reportedly set to sign former Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, said the 22-year-old defender signed a five-year d Capitol Police change training, security procedures 6 months after insurrection 07/06/2021 10:44am • Six months after a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as the 46th president of the United States, U.S. Capitol Police has announced departmental changes to training, communication, security and wellness services. Among the improvements Job openings, consumer borrowing, wholesale inventories 07/06/2021 06:00am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: HELP WANTED The number of job openings is rising as more businesses that closed due to the pandemic reopen. U.S. employers advertised a record 9.3 million jobs in April. Hotels and restaurants, reopening after bein